While you can still use Windows 8 without a touchscreen, the whole Metro UI experience isn’t as good navigating with a mouse and keyboard. So it would be nice to have a touchscreen tablet to try it out and get a real feel for Windows 8.
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This browser plugin will allow you to change your browsers homepage so that it looks like the new Windows 8 Metro UI. It’s easy to install and customise and is a great alternative to the developer preview of Windows 8 while we wait for it’s official release
If you don’t speak English and want to try out the Windows 8 developer preview then installing one of these language packs might just be the solution for you.
This guide will show you how to install the Windows 8 developer preview from a USB Flash Drive instead of installing Windows 8 using a DVD
In an earlier article, we demonstrated how you could install the Windows 8 Developer Preview with a dual-boot setup if your computer does not support virtualization. Now many are asking [...]
This is a quick guide on how to disable the new Metro UI and Ribbon Explorer bar in Windows 8. Some people prefer to have the old start menu and lockscreen
Many people prefer to use Windows with keyboard shortcuts (and who doesn’t use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V regularly). Windows 8 includes some new keyboard shortcuts for the new Metro UI. [...]
When I first made it to the Windows 8 Start screen desktop, I was a little confused about the different navigation shortcuts and techniques for finding my way around the [...]
This is a guide on how to install Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine. This will allow you to install windows 8 and try it out while still retaining your existing OS
It could be confusing deciding to buy a Windows 8 tablet on an Intel or an ARM chip. Here we look at the differences between the two.
Want Windows 8 Metro UI now? Download these free programs to get the Windows 8 interface on your current Windows 7 desktop.
Have you visited the Windows 8 Forum? If not, then maybe you should today. There are nearly 4,000 active users in the forum that we share with our sister site [...]
